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doing has a turn to the fublime. Thefe paflions alfo might be 

 faid in fome fort to magnify their objed ; but they do fo in a 

 manner very unfavourable to the fublime, by throwing round it 

 all the tender and minute circumftances which formerly accom- 

 panied and endeared the objed. I am for thefe reafons inclined 

 to think thefe paflions to be for the moft part unfit for fubUme 

 expreffion. The funeral oration of Anthony over Caefar's dead 

 body, fo wonderfully calculated to raife emotions of grief and 

 pity, in the following lines, I confefs appears to me fublime : 



For when the noble Csefar faw him ftab, 



Ingratitude, more ftrong than traitor's arms, 



Quite vanquifli'd him. — Then burft his mighty heart ; 



And in his mantle muffling up his face, 



Even at the bafe of Pompey's ftatue, 



Which all the while ran blood, great Cxfar fell. 



But the fubllmity of this paflage docs not, perhaps, fo much 

 depend upon the pathetic emotions of the fpeaker, as upon the 

 noble charader of Casfar, fo finely drawn, fighting againfl an 

 hoft of traitors, yet finking at the fight of his beloved friend ; 

 and above all, upon the great and afi:eding image conveyed in 

 the two laft lines, by which this eloquent fpeaker hath con- 

 trived moft forcibly to mark the horrid deed, and to refled a 

 fuperior luftre on the departed hero, in thus making the inani- 

 mate ftatue of his rival ftied drops of blood for his fall. 



There is another very fine pidure of grief, where Satan is 

 introduced by Milton, after having efcaped from Hell, addrefl"ing 

 the fun, and recalling to mind the circumftances of his own loft 

 glory and happinefs. The pafl'age is too long for quotation, 



but 



